Dazey,
You have managed to put your finger on the exact problem that we are struggling with. <thank you, thank you, thank you>
Almost every topic that DS8 covers in school, whether it's reading, social studies, health, math, or science, seems to be watered-down to a point where it is superficial. There is just very little meat on the bones, so to speak. (Please forgive, any vegetarians out there!) His love of books and reading has taken him so deeply into most subjects that everything the school covers is shallow and empty for him. We were talking at the dinner table last night about Gandhi and DS8 chimed in that he knew all about Gandhi as a leader in India. We had a long discussion about world history, peaceful resistance, and ended with the civil rights movement here in the USA. How many years will it take until he begins to even vaguely discuss such things in school? I agree that books can set you free. But they can also make a curious reader very, very bored at school. And that boredom infiltrates history, social studies, reading (if the levels are not appropriate) and even science and math.
We are currently trying to decide on whether we want to subject accelerate him (at the school's suggestion) in science from 4th to 5th this year, and both text books look like watered-down versions covering different concepts. There seems to be very little difference between 4th and 5th grade science, except one covers weather and one focuses on biology.
How do you get a teacher to add depth and content to the material? (for any subject?)
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